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From the Chinese Chan, Japanese Zen, and Korean Soen classics to the arts to contemporary Zen in the west, you will find over 200 books, courses, audio, video, and more to help you rediscover your Beginner’s Mind.

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The Heart of the Brush: Zen Calligraphy

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Hakuin Ekaku (c.1685-1768)

Two and a half centuries after his death, the thing he’s most remembered for is his line “What is the sound of one hand?” which, for some unknown reason, became the most famous of all koans—those notoriously confounding questions Zen masters use to check their students’ awakening. It pops up in the strangest places whenever Zen inscrutability needs to be demonstrated: it’s been the title of a novel, of a movie—and even the answer to a question on Jeopardy. It’s hard to know what Hakuin would have thought of his inadvertent contribution to twenty-first-century popular culture, but if the record he left us in words and images is any indication, he had a fine and subtle sense of humor. He’d likely have gotten a kick out of the Simpsons episode in which Lisa poses the famous case to her aggressively indifferent brother Bart.

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Trusting in Self

The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life

Zen Buddhism is not a philosophy like rationalism or empiricism; Zen is actual life. But when you study Zen, sometimes it may seem that Zen denies the value of intellectual understanding and depends only on direct experience.

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